Performance-Approach and Performance-Avoidance Goals: When Uncertainty Makes a Difference
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Performance-approach and performance-avoidance goals: when uncertainty makes a difference.
Performance-avoidance goals (the desire to avoid performing more poorly than others do) have been shown to have consistently deleterious effects on performance but the effects of performance-approach goals (trying to outperform others) are more complex. Two studies examine uncertainty as a moderator of the effect of performance-approach goals on performance. Experiment 1 shows that manipulated ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0146-1672,1552-7433
DOI: 10.1177/0146167207301022